UNIT 1. FUNDAMENTAL BASICS OF SURGERY I

1. Concept of surgical environment
2. - Distribution of the surgical area
3. - Classification of surgery
4. - Stages of surgery
5. - Members of the surgical team
6. - Functions of the surgical staff
7. - Wardrobe and accessories of the operating room staff

UNIT DIDACTIC 2. BASICS OF OPERATING ROOM II

1. Surgical scrubbing
2. Sterile field
3. - Preparation of the field
4. - Instrument table. Instrument placement
5. - Instrument delivery
6. Latex-free operating room
7. Minor surgery
8. - Precautions and contraindications
9. - Infrastructure and basic material for minor surgery
10. Major outpatient surgery
11. - Common procedures in CMA
12. - Patient selection criteria
13. - Patient exclusion criteria
14. - Recommendations to patients undergoing AMC surgery
15. Surgical drainage
16. - Types of drains
17. - Drainage removal

UNIT 3. THE SURGICAL PATIENT

1. Preoperative care of the surgical patient
2. - Patient care on the day of surgery
3. - Preparation of the surgical field: Shaving technique
4. - Postoperative care of the surgical patient
5. - Immediate postoperative stage
6. - Mediate postoperative stage
7. Postoperative complications
8. Informed consent
9. - Elements of informed consent
10. - The written manifestation
11. - Refusal of treatment
12. Positions of the surgical patient
13. - Safety measures
14. - Supine or dorsal position
15. - Prone or ventral position
16. - Lateral or Sims position
17. - Fowler or sitting position

UNIT DIDACTIC 4. ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

1. Introduction. Definition of pain
2. Anesthesia
3. - General anesthesia
4. - Local anesthesia
5. - Anesthetic pharmacology most commonly used in the operating room
6. Analgesia
7. - Types of analgesic agents

UNIT 5. MONITORING.

1. Vital signs and monitoring
2. - Determination of respiratory rate
3. - Determination of heart rate
4. - Determination of body temperature
5. - Determination of pulse oximetry
6. - Determination of blood pressure
7. Monitoring systems
8. - Electrocardiographic monitoring
9. Mechanical ventilation
10. Non-invasive mechanical ventilation

UNIT 6. CLEANING, STERILIZATION AND DISINFECTION.

1. Main concepts
2. Material cleaning
3. - Basic principles of cleaning
4. - General recommendations for cleaning surgical instruments
5. Disinfection
6. - Methods of material disinfection
7. - Factors affecting the effectiveness of the disinfection process
8. Sterilization
9. - Basic principles of sterilization
10. - Concepts and objectives of central sterilization
11. - Sterilization methods
12. Care of sterile material
13. - Quality control of sterilization
14. - Principles to be taken into account in disinfection and antisepsis

TEACHING UNIT 7. SUTURES

1. Suture
2. - Brief history
3. - Types of healing
4. - Suture characteristics
5. - The ideal suture
6. Classification
7. Material used
8. - Needles
9. - Other material
10. Suture technique
11. - Suture types
12. - Knots
13. - Removal of stitches
14. - Other specific sutures

UNIT DIDACTIC 8. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTATION I

1. Basic surgical maneuvers
2. - Opening
3. - Dissection
4. - Hemostasis
5. - Closing
6. - Separation
7. Surgical Instruments

Parts of a surgical instrument

UNIT DIDACTIC 9. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTATION II

1. General surgical instruments
2. Diaeresis instruments
3. - Scalpel or scalpel
4. - Scissors
5. Dissecting instruments
6. Separation instruments
7. Hemostasis instruments
8. Synthesis instruments
9. Field instruments
10. Auxiliary surgical instruments
11. Counting surgical material

UNIT DIDACTIC 10. PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS IN HEALTH

1. Accidentability, job description and basic activities
2. Risks arising from safety conditions
3. - Risk of falling to the same level
4. - Risk of falling to a different level
5. - Risk of collisions and blows against moving or immobile objects
6. - Risk of falling objects due to collapse or collapse, risk of entrapment
7. - Risk of cuts or punctures
8. - Risk of projection of fragments, particles or liquids
9. - Risk of burns due to thermal contact
10. - Risk of fire or explosion
11. - Risks arising from electrical contacts
12. - Risk of overexertion
13. - Risk of contact with noxious, toxic or corrosive substances
14. - Risk of being struck and run over by vehicles
15. - Risk of aggression
16. Risks arising from hygienic conditions
17. - Risk of exposure to chemical contaminants
18. - Risk of exposure to biological contaminants
19. - Risk of exposure to ionizing radiation
20. - Risk of exposure to non-ionizing radiation
21. - Risk from ergonomic conditions of the workplace
22. - Visual fatigue due to inadequate lighting and working with PVD
23. - Risk of discomfort due to excessive noise
24. - Risk of discomfort due to inadequate temperature
25. - Physical fatigue
26. - Mental fatigue